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Welcome back to the LocalHarvest newsletter. It's nearly Christmas, but instead of sugar plums, I have numbers dancing in my head. Membership and site traffic numbers, year-end and pricing survey numbers. I'm a words-over-formulas kind of girl, so...

It was the 85th birthday of our eldest relative, my mom, last Saturday, so we drove for two days to get to the party. Carrying two legs of lamb and a bag of sweet potatoes, it was a big responsibility, although the bitter cold made us think...

Welcome to our farm!

Molokai Meli   -   Dec 22, 2008 - By Denny and Brenda

Welcome to our farm and our blog!  We get so busy working that we forget some of  you might like to know what it's like living on a remote Hawaiian island, collecting wild bees, then collecting their special honey, and raising a family all at...

Christmas Critters

Kiss My Grass Farm   -   Dec 22, 2008 - By Dot and Brian

Well, it's 4 days 'til Christmas the Red Wattle hogs are all nestled snug in their hay and the Scottish Highland Cattle are wishing the horses would all go away and 200 hundred chickens are ready to lay... Ok so it's not the 12 days of...

Can It Get Colder? Oh Yeah!

Great Expectations   -   Dec 22, 2008 - By Candace

"Baby, it's cold outside..." I heard that song on the radio today and boy, does it fit the weather we're having!  It is very cold here in the Midwest and we're all feeling the arctic "breezes".  Our pole barn has...

Baby, it's cold outside!

Cottonwood Farm   -   Dec 21, 2008 - By Kathy & Lynn

Man, it's freezing!  The high today was 16, and I don't even want to know what the wind chill is!  The lambs unplugged the heater tape for the hydrant out at the barn during the night, so it was noon:thirty before we could finish chores and...

Happy Holidays from Golden Touch Alpaca Farm!

Golden Touch Alpaca Farm   -   Dec 21, 2008 - By Shelley_2

Everyone here at Golden Touch Alpaca Farm wanted to take a quick second and wish you all a Happy (and warm) Holiday! We have been getting slammed with snow this past weekend but all our Alpaca are safe and cozy in their barns.  Here is a video we shot...

I am currently working on getting Certified Naturally Grown, certification for my heritage chickens and milking goats, as well as the natural eggs and raw milk they produce. The goats have a large barn with a large free range area where they enjoy ranging,...

Poultry 2008

Trautman Family Farm   -   Dec 20, 2008 - By Scott&JulieTraut

Note: This is in response to a former student of my MATC organic class and represents about the entirety of my thoughts on organic poultry 2008. I decided to post it here as well hoping that others might gain...whatever they might gain...from our experiences....

Cold Weather and CHICKENS!!

Ebersole Cattle Company   -   Dec 19, 2008 - By ShanenEbersole

Old man winter has arrived!  He blew in with a 45 degree temperature change on Sunday and Ice on Thursday.  Right now we have 2 inches of snow covered with 3/4 inch of ice and another 1/2 inch of snow.  Talk about SLICK!!  I skated to the...